YouTube Red, the streaming giant's premium ad-free service, has been around for a while now and, while several high-profile original creations have been promoted and...
Babak Anvari—whose culturally-specific, domestically haunted horror thriller Under the Shadow released back in 2016 to critical praise—has a new untitled film project on its way....
Banners have a broader, more powerful presence in contemporary American life than ever before. The new exhibition “Word on the Street,” which is now available...
The Contemporary and Modern Art (CAMA) Gallery has been making waves as it approaches its London opening, with preemptive engagements celebrating the work of internationally...
How might someone in Tajikistan, the only Persian-speaking republic in the former Soviet Union, describe a beautiful and lively night spent in the company of...
“What Iran ‘is’, is entirely dependent on who speaks for it,” writes Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam toward the end of his new book Psycho-nationalism – Global Thought,...
Nodjoumi's work has been shown throughout the world and is a part of important international collections, including the British Museum, the National Museum of Cuba,...
As Berlinale drew to a close, some of its attending Iranian productions were investigated by attending journalists to impressive results. Now, Pooya Badkoobeh’s debut drama...
The Village Voice reports of a massive retrospective of the work of filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei at the Anthology Film Archives, under the title “Documentary, Iranian...
HBO’s highly anticipated new feature-length film Fahrenheit 451—an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s seminal science fiction novel about societal control through widespread governmentally imposed anti-literacy—was just...
Local Wisconsin filmmaker Hamidreza Nassiri just wrapped her second annual Wisconsin Iranian Film Festival. Serving as the festival’s organizer, Nassiri is also a teaching assistant...
FRONTLINE traces how the 40-year rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has fueled sectarian extremism across the Middle East for political gain. Correspondent Martin Smith...
In the spring of 2009 the eminent historian of modern Iran Ervand Abrahamian wrote an article entitled, “Why the Islamic Republic Has Survived.” Therein he...
Mani Haghighi’s Khook (“Pig”) has now been screened at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival (a/k/a Berlinale), already garnering attention and praise. Variety sat down...
Many might know the name Marjane Satrapi from her best-selling autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis, which engendered a well-received animated film by the same name in...
PBS’ long-running public affairs program Frontline has just kicked off Bitter Rivals, a 2-part docu-series which will investigate the Iranian-Saudi conflict. With the first episode...
